As head of IHI, Dr. Berwick can take credit for driving numerous national and international projects to improve the quality of healthcare processes, hospital standards and medical outcomes. The venture we like best is the Hospital Improvement Map, an online tool to guide administrators and physicians across the "confusing landscape" of reform demands, and down the "reliable routes" to better care. It launches in September, and will be free. He patronizes the work of other list-members, including: Gawande's surgical safety checklist and Moore's IMP.org. Besides many other leadership positions and board seats, Dr. Berwick teaches at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Sharing the 'good news' with ABCNews:

"We see organizations that are able to cut injuries to patients, dramatically. Mayo Clinic [has] reduced injuries to patients by over 50 percent in two years. We’re working with systems in Scotland [that] are able to get patient safety up tenfold -- one-tenth the injuries to patients! We see dramatic improvements in patient-centeredness; systems that are opening their doors to patients, getting them involved in their own care; the Medical College of Georgia is one prototype I deeply admire. So, give me any dimension of quality and I can find a place in the United States, or abroad, that is knocking the socks off the problem. Now we need to put it all together.”